Software Design: Tidy First?

October 2025

Pitching Hackathon Ideas: Oxymoron

The economic rationale for hackathons is that they create value by injecting uncertainty into development.

Oct 31 • 

Kent Beck

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Getting Ready to Launch

Special practices for special times

Oct 29 • 

Kent Beck

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First Principles First

When analyzing metrics, apply the simple filters first

Oct 21 • 

Kent Beck

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Separate Failed Assertions from Unexpected Exceptions?

A seemingly-minor detail of test framework design turns out to depend on context

Oct 16 • 

Kent Beck

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Teaching Augmented Coding

First Impressions

Oct 8 • 

Kent Beck

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September 2025

Programming Deflation

When Code Gets Cheaper Every Day

Sep 15 • 

Kent Beck

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Genie Fight

When genies collide...

Sep 11 • 

Kent Beck

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Switching Scale

A genie-commanding superpower

Sep 5 • 

Kent Beck

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Beyond the IDE

Patch Boards to IDEs

Sep 4 • 

Kent Beck

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August 2025

Genies Getting Stuck

As a dog returns to his vomit, so a fool repeats his folly

Aug 27 • 

Kent Beck

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